• DocumentCode
    3174778
  • Title

    The path-based distance skeleton: a flexible tool to analyse silhouette shape

  • Author

    Di Baja, Gabriella Sanniti ; Thiel, Edouard

  • Author_Institution
    Istituto di Cibernetica, CNR, Arco Felice, Italy
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    1994
  • fDate
    9-13 Oct 1994
  • Firstpage
    570
  • Abstract
    The path-based distance skeleton is used to analyse the shape of a digital silhouette, perceived as the superposition of elongated regions. The skeleton is suitably decomposed and the resulting components are used to represent and describe the corresponding regions
  • Keywords
    image processing; digital silhouette; elongated regions superposition; path-based distance skeleton; pattern decomposition; silhouette shape; Cities and towns; Euclidean distance; Geometry; Humans; Merging; Pattern analysis; Shape; Skeleton; Thickness measurement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Pattern Recognition, 1994. Vol. 2 - Conference B: Computer Vision & Image Processing., Proceedings of the 12th IAPR International. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Jerusalem
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-6270-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICPR.1994.577041
  • Filename
    577041